Photos tagged with jpl
Images of my Alberta - Jasper in the fall. From Jasper Park Lodge looking west over Lake Beauvert. Jasper Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, rated one of the top ten national parks in the World and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Yu Don Yeomans is now on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl answering viewer questions on NEOs JPL chain, handwoven of course. :) A sneak peek. A student tour group -- jaded teens all -- are nonetheless fascinated by MSL and its "sky crane." MSL and its sky crane pose in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility (zoomed). MSL and its "sky crane" pose in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Ashwin Vasavada answering UStream chat questions with the MSL and its delivery apparatus in the background Meanwhile they're interviewing MSL scientists next to the clean room; this screenshot shows the complete view of the testing ops. The MSL rover will be lowered from *this* hovering contraption onto the Martian surface! Scary, is't it? Live view of work on the controversial Mars Science Laboratory provided by JPL in a new outreach experiment described in http://tr.im/chatinfo They've switched the expert at the JPL OCO chat at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl to Dave Crisp, whom I had long known (via e-mail and his papers) as an astronomer and expert for the atmosphere of Venus, esp. light emissions from its "dark side". At this very moment the moderator (left) during the JPL OCO chat at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl is reading my question to the mission expert on the right! Who then gave a highly technical explanation. That's too cool: We are 9 time zones apart! Me at #jpltweetup with @jhjones and her alter ego @cassinisaturn. It's nice to finally put a face to a planet! A (the?) Cassini navigator being interviewed during the #jpltweetup webcast. Audience of MER team members, family and friends at Von Karman Auditorium NASA JPL MER 5th yr celebration keynote speaker Miles O'Brien 01/15/09 NASA JPL MER 5th yr celebration surprise guest speaker, Ray Bradbury. NASA MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyers 01/15/09 NASA JPL MER Program Manager John Callas. NASA JPL Director Charles Elachi welcomes the audience in Von Karman Auditorium to the MER 5th Year celebration Quick photo of one of the "5 Years On Mars" banners posted at JPL. note to self: more hiking in 2009